Category Archives: Diary

Hello! We are keen to find a talented skilled web developer to collaborate with us on a project called Motivating Collective Custom Build. We hope it might be you. We have a very small amount of funding from the Arts … Continue reading →

‘How The Public Sector Can Help People Build Their Own Homes – A Practice Guide’ was released yesterday by the National Self Build Association (NaSBA) to coincide with National Self-Build Week, which runs from the 4-12 May 2013. The National … Continue reading →

‘Socially minded, commercially minded – A report on tomorrow’s housing association’, authored by Denise Chevin on behalf of Genesis Housing Association and published by the Smith Institute was launched last week and is available to read here. The report is … Continue reading →

Silvia Ullmayer, Annalie Riches and Barti Garibaldo developed this self-build project together – called In-Between – in Hackney, London between 2001 and 2004. It comprises 3 units, which interestingly we believe to be structurally linked – a design condition frequently cited … Continue reading →

We are finding a number of developers are growing parts of their business model to include enabling custom build – a ‘hand-holding’, development management role designed to support self-builders and groups of self-builders engage with building their own homes in a way … Continue reading →

Fideicomiso are legal trusts that have developed in Argentina to challenge models of conventional speculative housing development[1]. They also occur in other Latin American countries, and are sometimes more fully called fideicomiso financieros – or financial trust.[2] In Buenos Aires … Continue reading →